There are an infinite number of ways to be here, as there are infinite things to be doing here. We all come here to do what we are to do. Some of us are here to learn. Some of us are hear to teach. Some of us are here to create a new, as some of us are here to destroy what is old. Some of us are here to help, and still some of us are here to hinder..

We all give each other a goal, and a way, and a doing.
We all are be-ing for each other; for each aspect of the WHOLE.

It always makes me laugh when artists, designers, poets, and musicians say that self-promotion is degrading… What’s degrading is making amazing work and keeping it a secret, because you lack to the courage to believe in what you’ve done enough to have it die with you unsung & unseen. There is nothing more arrogant & egotistical than keeping your greatness to yourself. Share yourself! Tell others about what you are doing! Get excited about what you create!

– believe that everything is a trap or a trick.
– that you are about to be taken advantage of.
– those whom you are about to meet will find you annoying or even worse really stupid.
– nothing you do will be as successful as all the others out there already doing it.
– that no one likes you because you aren’t rich, or do because you are.
– believe nothing you are ever going to do will make difference in the world.
– think that you are alone and that’s why you feel lonely.
– believe that you are cool cuz you can drink them all under the table, are lazy, and talk about getting laid a lot, ..or even worse because you don’t drink, work too much, and pretend that sex is over-rated.
– work for and with people that don’t appreciate you.
– date people to prove a point.

…and finally..
– be as self-centered as possible, but instead of being centered within the self, be self-critical and self-judgmental in a self-deprecating manner.

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How to Remain a Valuable Success & a Lovable Fun Guy

– forgive yourself and everyone you know and don’t know / or don’t know yet.
– give thanks to anyone and everything that has inspired or helped you along ‘the way’.
– work from where you are and with what you got while progressing toward a worthy ideal.
– relax as much as you need to.
– do work that you love.
– … as much as possible, be around people that you love & love you.
– always listen to the silence within and ignore the chatter without.
– move when inspired, go with your enthusiasm.
– live steadfast within your faith.
– remind yourself daily that all is well in your world.
– love is not only everywhere you place your heart, but is all around you, at all times.

No matter what you’ve got going for you, you will never be what you will try to be, !UNLESS! you try to be the thing you currently are and master that first. That’s the only way to move on the next level of anything. And I guarantee you, once you’ve mastered what you truly are right now, there’s absolutely no reason for you to wanna be anything other than what you already are. Keep trying, keep going, keep swinging, keep rocking, keep the “F” at it!

How much energy do you spend a day on criticizing? OR sizing people or places up? ..Imagine all the awesome stuff you could be doing instead..

Only announce criticisms worthy of your voice, ..worthy of your energy. For if it is coming from you, coming up from your entirety, as in truly from the whole you, then put your heart into it, for it is probably honesty.

Place your soul within it before you launch it, otherwise discard it and do something worthy of yourself by seeking a “solution” to what you are critical of. Most criticisms are in someway self-referential. So be careful that your criticism isn’t a criticism of yourself. ..that you aren’t just passing the buck.

Bold Appreciation takes guts. And I know you got the guts to find something else to direct your energy towards than on petty criticisms. There is always something lovely there with you, place your attention on that instead.

[Just because I’m a Life & Wellness Coach doesn’t mean that I’m impervious to bouts with frustration, annoyances, fear, and displeasure. But in life it is how you deal with it that matters. Emotions are there to guide you as much as you are there to guide them; thoughts, the same. This post is of a personal nature and has to do with something I struggle with from time to time.

Being that I’m a guy of a lot of interests I can get overwhelmed and feel the pressures of having to “be” something in regards to societal pressures as well as cultural memes. Being a life coach, a designer, a sound artist, and writer, often want to play chess with me.. sometimes it takes everything I can to hold it all together without losing “who I am” in the process.

Ask anyone that has ever known me, I’ve had my bouts with the identity crisis. Before, it had more to do with hiding. Today it has more to do with life priorities and self-honesty.

Below are some of my personal thoughts during a moment of awakened suffering. Thankfully a moment that taught me much and have moved on from in a healthier way.

Maybe my words can help you. Or maybe you have some advice for me just in case may arise again within me. I’m always open to good advice.

…eitherway, enjoy. …Hope your day is going well.]

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My belief in truth prevents me from the adventure of experiencing truth.

Knowledge of truth is not truth.

Wisdom is cultivated via experience, yet experience is only an aspect of truth.

… Is it that I must surrender to “trust” peace? I, as of now, do not know. I only assume that from what I’ve read and have heard. This is my experience.

I’ve made truth separate from my experience for fear of offending. Yet I’ve read all-is-one, and have written that All is 1, so how can I be offensive? I’ve only experienced wholeness transcendentally. Yet to transcend the self is to no longer be the self. Where is the confidence in this? To know only in a dream sense?? .. This seems to not be “actual”, but of a desire to make my yearnings thereof (my ideas of) an actual.

I’ve met the “now” in moments; I’ve never met God, or Tao. My psyche has met the dead in dream and coincidence, and the living via my senses. My thoughts have conceptualized space, interpreted time, but the courage to partake of them wholly has eluded me. The courage to be as I teach has yet to be. …That is to say – fully realized, honored, unshakable, “true”. My heart, the courage to trust, is being tested by an intellectual notion of fullness.

Is there a “soul truth” that I am to reach as I am today? Grace? Relaxed Confidence? My soul is still just an idea to me. My face, trying to recognize my face without a mirror to reflect it’s image. This has been my experience so far. At least in regards to relating to myself the eye’s of which to see others. How can I teach bliss when I have a hard time trusting my own? So easily I give into advantagion, and people pleasing, instead of authenticity… It is any wonder why my needs & my wants battle for the money and the time of my life… …Why I only half love anyone and everything has been beyond my comprehension.

I do not always feel connected to source. Often I awake annoyed and in an inner battle, I am conflicted by childhood desires & adult conclusions: the veracity of being: a warrior, a song smith, an artist, a pervert, spiritual-minded, monetarily worried, … called by darkness, and annoyed by interruption, yet prompted to love and lust, yearning and the support for others in distress… even a proponent of personal empowerment… I am conflicted.

The courage to trust and let go to give into inner peace, this is the adventure! This is my grail-quest.

To live as the poetry of confidence, the relaxation of trust, the ease of enjoyment, this is my discovered treasure.

From treasure-map to trust via self-acceptance, for me that has been AUTHENTICITY.